[…] multifaceted approach is needed to undo this bigotry. The 1978 reversal of the Church’s refusal to allow Black members to receive temple blessings and the 2020 pronouncement by President Russell M. Nelson urging members to […]
[…] uncomfortable for him calling it a cross, to the church wide policy of denying anyone who has black ancestry the priesthood and temple blessings which even though he is uncomfortable with it he does […]
[…] One” event, celebrating forty years since the LDS Church removed racial restrictions on temple and priesthood participation, Black Latter-day Saint podcaster and author Zandra Vranes asked white members to consider “what you or your […]
[…] how, against all expectation, the Lord in 1978 had revealed to the prophet Spencer W. Kimball that black males should no longer be denied ordination on account of their race. Now, I don’t believe […]
[…] it was in Sunday School, seminary, or Young Women, I had a lesson on chastity, modesty, or dating at least once a month. With all the lessons about modesty, dating, and pornography, it felt […]
[…] Greenwood Press, 2004), 9; Stephen C. Harper, “On the Eve of the First Vision,” in Susan Easton Black and Andrew C. Skinner, eds., Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet (Salt Lake […]
[…] Mormons to join with others in civil rights actions and to build bridges and respond positively to black aspirations will bring special kinds of misunderstanding and pain and will sometimes make the cross harder […]
I reflect upon a work of art by Marlena Wilding, a Black female artist with ties to Utah and Mormonism. Her artwork is a stark representation of the complex nature of living while Black […]
[…] Century,” BYU Studies 38, no. 2 (1999): 7. Ibid. Ibid., 22–26. Robert T. Barrett and Susan Easton Black, “Setting a Standard in LDS Art: Four Illustrators of the Mid-Twentieth Century,” BYU Studies 44, no. […]
[…] near future. Rather than acquiescing to non-Mormon expectations of an official pronounce ment at October conference vali dating what the Salt Lake Stake president had said in February and what Utah’s delegate had said […]